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CIGAR CUTTER.

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\VILLIAM M. DUGKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ClGAR -CUTTER.

QEEUIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,384, dated December 1, 1885. Application filed May 11, 1885. Serial No. 165,032. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM M. Dncxnn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Boxes and Cigar-Gutters Combined; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side View of one form of my box with the near side cut away to show the position of the parts, the box being closed. Fig. 2 isasimilar view, the box open. Fig. 3 is a view looking from the front of the box, the lid in elevation and standing up, the box in longitudinal transverse section through the line 00 m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. shows one way of forming a knife suitable to be used with the box shown in Figs; 1 to 3. Fig. 5 shows another form of my invcntion, being a side View with the near side cut away to show the position of the parts, the box being closed. Fig. 6 is a similar view, the box open. Fig. 7 is a view looking from the front of the box, the lid in elevation and standing up, the box in longitudinal transverse section through the line 3 3 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a section of the lid through the line a z of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a view of a knife suitable to be used with the box, Figs. 5 to 8.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

A is amatch-box, and B the lid, hinged thereto in the usual or any convenient manner, and having a spring-snap, o, to hold the lid when the box is closed, and a spring, j, to throw back the lid when the box is opened, and the shoulders 7t to'support the lid against lateral displacement. On the box, and in the angle formed by the body and lid when the box is open, I rigidly attach a cutting blade, a, with its edge parallel to the side of the box and projecting above the box far enough to cross a cigar-receiving opcning,c,provided in the lid. This knife may be placed either in the middle transversely of the box, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3, or it may be placed contiguous to the side of the box, as shown in Figs. 5 to 8. This knife to is of any suitable form, and may be secured to the box in any convenient manner. In Fig. 4. I showa knife, a, adapted to be used in the transverse middle of the box, formed with a narrow portion, Z), bent at right angle to the blade, by means of which it may be conveniently riveted to the back of the box, and in Fig. 9 I show a similar knife, a, adapted to be used at the side of the box, which may have a wider projecting portion, b,wh ich may be riveted to the back of the box, and the blade may in that case also be riveted to the side of the box, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

To receive the tip of the cigar, I form a pas sage, c, in the lid of the box of suitable size, which extends entirely through the lid transversely, so that when the lid is open, as shown in Figs. 2, 8, 6, and 7, the passage is free to allow the insertion of the tip or end of the cigar. In the box having the knife a contiguous with the side of the box, as shown in Figs. 5 to 8, I form this passage by making a hole, 0, in the side of the lid near which the knife will stand when the lid is closed, which is the receivingopening for the tip of the cigar, and on the opposite side of the lid I make a corresponding hole, which may be a trifle larger, in which a dis chargingtube, (l, is fitted and secured by soldering or in any other well-known manner, through which the tip of the cigar is discharged after having been cut off. Between the inner end of the tube d and the opposite side of the lid I leave an open space or slot, 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 8, of suitable size to allow the knife a to enter.

In the box having the knife situated in the middle transversely I make suitable holes on each side of the lid,opposite each other, to receive the larger ends of the conical tubes f f, and these are secured in such holes by soldering or otherwise. In the middle, and between the smaller ends of these tubes ff, is left the open space or slot 6, as shown in Fig. 3, of a suitable size to allow the knife a to enter, as in the other case. In this form either side is the receiving-opening for the cigar, and the opposite side is the dischargingtube. The holes in the lid in this form must be large enough to allow the insertion of the thick part I thrown back, the end of the cigar is inserted in the receiving -passage 0. The lid is then closed down upon the box, carrying the end of the cigar with it and across the knife 0, which is thereby forced through the cigar, cutting off the tip, and the tip falls out of the dis charging-tube and without the box.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a match-box having a hinged cover provided with a hole for the insertion of the tip of a cigar, and a transverse receiver for catching the severed tips located in the cover between the hinge and the end of the box opposite the hinge, of a cutter secured to the body of the box, all arranged and operating as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a matchbox having a hinged cover provided with a hole for the insertion of a tip of a cigar, and a transverse receiver for catching the severed tips, and a discharge-hole, which registers therewith, located in the cover between the hinge and the end of the box opposite the hinge, and a cutter secured to the body of the box, all arranged and operating as and for the purpose specified.

3. A match-box provided with a cuttingblade parallel to the side of the box and rigidly attached thereto in the angle formed by the box and its lid when the box is open, in combination with a hinged lid having a passage, c, transversely through the same, a hole for a cigar-tip on one side and a dischargingtube on the opposite side of the lid, and a slot, 6, coincident with the cutting-blade between such hole and discharging-tube, the lid having the passage c,adapted to be moved across the cutting-blade by the operation of closing the lid, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

\VILLI AM M. DUCKER.

Witnesses:

FRANK K. EGERTON, VANDENBURG OHEVALLIER. 

